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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.

I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.

I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.

Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.

Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.

-SoulRiser

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now i have just woken up from a nap and i am feeling aggressive - towards adults, christians in particular. american christians in particular x2
i feel destructive. a little violent. a little homicidal which may be better than suicidal -probl is

i have been posting on aces. but 99.9 percent of them there are so mainstream...

99.9 probably believe its ok to hurt human beings who dont obey.

and its ok to let one or two humans pretty much totally control some other human being, known as "their child" for 18 years

18 years

for what crime?

as most of u know here, the crime of being born

18 years

18 YEARS

i dont even know now many pple here would vote for giving, say, 14 year olds freedom to move out...

i have talked to a lot of people about this law, saying u are a teen prisoner till 18 and nearly everyone defends it.

what about u guys here?

im curious but i expect to feel discouraged by the replies.

i was thinking tonight again about my idea of a freedom fund.

one huge problem is money. financial freedom.

i know lots of pple who are 18 or over who are not financially free. s they are stuck with, guess who?

and stuck in the mafia groups, ie countries, where they were born into slavery and imprisonment.

but what if there were a smart person who got a law passed saying that it is required to have a fund set up for each child so by the time they are 14 they can live independently if they want to. or go traveling. and passports were freely given. as 'birthrights". and given to 14 year olds.

and we prepared "children" to be responsible. and to be independent and free?

and i forgot to say - adults take themselves way too seriously. they cant take a joke most of the time. they are too defensive, ie too insecure. teens could do better without them. im pretty much convinced of it.